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US 8,579,140 B2Granted
Child-resistant dispensing closures and closure components
AssigneeRexam Healthcare Packaging Inc.
InventorsDonald Paul Delagrange, Philip D. Bourgeois, Gregory A. Geisinger, Maurice R. Gnepper, Darin M. Pugne
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Abstract
A child-resistant dispensing closure for a container may include one or the other or both of a dispensing cover non-removably securable to a container, or an outer cover non-removably securable and rotatable with respect to the inner cover and cooperable with the dispensing cover to render the closure child-resistant. According to another embodiment, an outer cover may include a flange to aid users in pushing and turning the outer cover with their fingers.
Claims42
A child-resistant dispensing package that includes:
- a container having an open end,
- an inner cover non-removably secured to said container over said open end, said inner cover having a deck with a dispensing opening, a peripheral skirt secured to said container in a non-removable manner, a lid hinged to said deck for pivotal movement between a closed position closing said dispensing opening and an open position spaced from said dispensing opening, and an external shoulder with an annular array of under-notches, and
- an outer cover with a base wall and a peripheral skirt with internal lugs for receipt over said shoulder within said under-notches of said inner cover, at least one internal spring for engaging said inner cover and biasing said outer cover away from said inner cover and releasably registering said internal lugs on said outer cover within said under-notches of said inner cover, a central opening surrounding said lid and defined by lobes and scallops, and cam surfaces on said lobes,
- wherein downward pressure on said outer cover against said at least one internal spring releases said outer cover for rotation with respect to said inner cover and at least one of said cam surfaces engages said lid and cams said lid from said closed position toward said open position so that said lid can be manually further moved to said open position and medication can be dispensed through said dispensing opening.
1 more element
A child-resistant dispensing closure securable to a container, which includes:
- an inner cover securable to said container and including a base having a deck with a dispensing opening, a lid coupled to said base for movement between a closed position closing said dispensing opening and an open position spaced from said dispensing opening, a skirt depending from said deck, a shoulder with an annular array of under-notches, and
- an outer cover rotatably coupled to said inner cover and including a peripheral skirt with internal lugs for receipt over said shoulder of said inner cover and within said under-notches of said shoulder, and further including a base wall from which said peripheral skirt depends and which includes a central opening at least partially surrounding said lid and at least partially defined by lobes having cam surfaces to cooperate with said lid.
An outer cover of a child-resistant dispensing closure, wherein said outer cover includes:
- a peripheral skirt with internal lugs, and
- a base wall from which said peripheral skirt depends and including a central opening, wherein said central opening is at least partially defined by lobes and by scallops with inclined cam surfaces between said lobes and said scallops, and also including dosing indicia on said base wall corresponding to said scallops to assist a user in complying with a dosage or dosing regimen.
A cover of a child-resistant dispensing closure, which cover includes a base including:
- a deck having a dispensing opening therethrough;
- an inner skirt extending from an inner surface of the deck;
- an outer peripheral skirt disposed radially outwardly of the inner skirt and including a plurality of lugs extending from an inner surface of said outer peripheral skirt and a plurality of stops extending from an inner surface of said outer peripheral skirt;
- and
- an external shoulder between said deck and said outer peripheral skirt and said external shoulder including an annular array of under-notches.
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A push-and-turn cover for a container, which includes:
- an inner cover with a lid;
- and an outer cover including:
- a base wall;
- a peripheral skirt depending from said base wall;
- and a flange extending from and larger in outer diameter than said peripheral skirt to aid users in pushing and turning said outer cover with their fingers, said flange including a generally transversely extending wall extending from said peripheral skirt to provide an axial reaction feature for a user's fingers, a generally axially extending rim extending from said generally transversely extending wall, and including a plurality of lugs extending from a top surface of the flange and having wavy surfaces to provide circumferential reaction features for the user's fingers.
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A child-resistant dispensing package, which includes:
- a container having an open end;
- and
- a closure non-removably secured to said container, and including:
- an inner dispensing cover non-removably secured to said open end of said container and including a flip-top lid;
- and
- an outer cover non-removably secured to said dispensing cover and cooperable with said dispensing cover to render said closure child-resistant wherein said outer cover includes a base wall with an opening at least partially surrounding said lid of said inner dispensing cover and at least partially defined by lobes having cam surfaces co-operable with said lid to cam said lid from a closed position toward an open position such that said flip-top lid is openable by pushing and turning said outer cover.
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A child-resistant dispensing closure includes
- an outer cover including a base wall and a peripheral skirt extending from said base wall and including a plurality of internal lugs;
- and
- an inner cover including a base having:
- a deck,
- an outer peripheral skirt including a plurality of lugs and stops,
- an external shoulder between said deck and said skirt and having an annular array of under-notches, and
- a plurality of cam features that cooperate with said internal lugs of said outer cover to permit said outer cover to be unidirectionally rotated with respect to said cover, to assist with registration of said internal lugs into said under-notches of said inner cover, and to provide tactile feedback to a user that said outer cover is being rotated in a design-intended direction about said cover.
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A package that includes,
- a container;
- and
- a child-resistant dispensing closure coupled to said container and including:
- an inner cover securable to said container and including:
- a base having a deck with a dispensing opening,
- a shoulder with an annular array of under-notches, and
- a flip-top lid coupled to said base for movement between a closed position closing said dispensing opening and an open position spaced from said dispensing opening, and
- an outer cover securable and rotatable with respect to said inner cover and including:
- a peripheral skirt with internal lugs for receipt over said inner cover and within under-notches of said inner cover, and
- a base wall from which said peripheral skirt depends and including a central opening at least partially defined by lobes having cam surfaces.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.